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      <h1>Agency &amp; Foraging</h1>
      <p>iTexx works in parallel to you. It provides results in a context-aware manner. And there is some &quot;intelligence&quot; built into it.</p>
      <p>Yet, intelligence can't be programmed. If its behavior is programmed in the way a standard computer program is programmed, it can't be intelligent any more. Intelligence (whatever it is), requires autonomy and learning, in short, a particular notion of agency. Otherwise, a program has been built intelligently, without being able to achieve its own &quot;intelligence&quot;.</p>
      <p>A second rather important issue concerns the notion of &quot;information&quot;.&nbsp;It is often proclaimed that we are doing &quot;information rerieval&quot; when browsing the web. Yet, information can't be retrieved. What you retrieve is just kind of a (digitally encoded)document. The information comes into existence <em>just and only and absolutely exclusively </em>upon <em>your</em> interpretation.&nbsp;</p>
      <p>Retrieving documents intelligently requires agency and the capability for interpretation that has <em>not</em> been determined in advance by a programmer. Thus, we need a different wording to describe what iTexx is actually doing.</p>
      <p>So, what is Texx actually doing?</p>
      <p>iTexx is hunting and collecting document much the same way as animals exploit resources. This exploitation is called &quot;foraging&quot; in the biology of behavior.</p>
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